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Percentage of firms expecting price increases over the next six months
From the Conference Board's Index of Business Confidence, the firm's expectation of price increases over the next six months.
CPI Inflation: Consensus Forecasts
Arithmetic average of all the individual predictions collected by Consensus Economics for CPI inflation in Canada.
Percentage of firms expecting CPI inflation over the next two years
From the Business Outlook Survey conducted by the Bank of Canada’s regional offices, the firms’ expectation for the annual rate of inflation, based on the consumer price index, over the next two years. Learn more
Expectations implicit in real/nominal bond spread
Yield spread between conventional (selected long-term government of Canada benchmark bond yields) and benchmark real return bonds.